Understand What Checking Down a Hand is in Poker

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Summary: Learn how to check down a hand in an implied and assumed way instead of yelling it across the table in this free video series that will have you behaving like a poker pro in no time.

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Understand What Checking Down a Hand is in Poker

Some poker etiquette that will only relate to tournament play is two players agreeing to check down a hand when a third player has gone all in. Now in tournament play a lot of times your goal is to keep working yourself up the ladder, keep eliminating other players so that you get higher and finish either higher in the money or eventually win the tournament. So now if we're in a hand, say we're in a hand here and this is a tournament play. Player one is going all in, player two folds, player three calls, and I call. I can't verbally tell player three "hey, let's check this hand down". Now there is a rule or not a rule, but a strategy called implicit collusion, where we know he's all in, he's not putting anymore money into the pot. What we want to do is give both of us the best chance with the two cards that we have in front of each of us to be able to knock him out of the tournament. We can agree to that with it being implied, but we can't verbally talk about that agreement. We can't tell the other person "hey, he's all in let's me and you check this down and not put any money into the pot". This is very bad poker etiquette and will get this person very pissed off at you. So just let it be implied, just hope this person is a very experienced tournament player and understands some strategies of tournament play and you implicitly collude to knock this person out of the tournament.